creator Alkhovsky, Julie creator Benjamin, Bryan creator Carimichael, Jake creator El-natour, Ibrahim creator Lozanoski, Phillip creator Pierce, Nicholas creator Prout, Savannah creator Richie-smith, Robert creator Steponavicius, Nerijus creator Tchobanova, Natacha creator Walther, Alyssa creator Winstanley, Samuel Recreational fishing in the United States generates over a billion dollars of economic output and providing well over a million American’s with jobs. There are many variations of fishing hooks available that retain the same basic shape and structure, the most popular examples being, the standard J-hook and the standard treble hook. However, there are many limitations associated with existing fishing hooks. One such limitation is that fishing hooks are not able to reliably hold the fish after embedding. Introducing a barb to the hook helps resolve this issue, doing so however creates problems when setting the hook and furthermore, barbs can cause damage to the fish during the removal of the hook. Another concern is that contemporary fishing hooks have problems with snagging on nearby rock formations, algae, weeds, or other vegetation in the water. Submitted by Vishal Patel (vpatel87@iit.edu) on 2011-01-09T09:28:55Z No. of bitstreams: 4 DHT EnPRO358ProjectPlanSu10.pdf: 1390653 bytes, checksum: 1dd5b281f2763363d9d44d8555f0024c (MD5) DHT EnPRO358PosterSu10.pdf: 872706 bytes, checksum: 9f9ebf06f98571f550b51ced0bb5d773 (MD5) DHT EnPRO358MidTermPresentationSu10.pdf: 1762098 bytes, checksum: 1dd5ff4183341fa6ef8c3b60cf76e23f (MD5) DHT EnPRO358BrochureSu10.pdf: 411586 bytes, checksum: 89261e1ea9eb7e0a9446e68233ac0b32 (MD5) Approved for entry into archive by Charles Uth(uth@iit.edu) on 2011-01-11T19:36:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 4 DHT EnPRO358ProjectPlanSu10.pdf: 1390653 bytes, checksum: 1dd5b281f2763363d9d44d8555f0024c (MD5) DHT EnPRO358PosterSu10.pdf: 872706 bytes, checksum: 9f9ebf06f98571f550b51ced0bb5d773 (MD5) DHT EnPRO358MidTermPresentationSu10.pdf: 1762098 bytes, checksum: 1dd5ff4183341fa6ef8c3b60cf76e23f (MD5) DHT EnPRO358BrochureSu10.pdf: 411586 bytes, checksum: 89261e1ea9eb7e0a9446e68233ac0b32 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-01-11T19:36:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 DHT EnPRO358ProjectPlanSu10.pdf: 1390653 bytes, checksum: 1dd5b281f2763363d9d44d8555f0024c (MD5) DHT EnPRO358PosterSu10.pdf: 872706 bytes, checksum: 9f9ebf06f98571f550b51ced0bb5d773 (MD5) DHT EnPRO358MidTermPresentationSu10.pdf: 1762098 bytes, checksum: 1dd5ff4183341fa6ef8c3b60cf76e23f (MD5) DHT EnPRO358BrochureSu10.pdf: 411586 bytes, checksum: 89261e1ea9eb7e0a9446e68233ac0b32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07 DHT Deliverables 2010 2010-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/1402 en Delta Hook Technologies (DHT) safe flexible snag resistant uniform strength advertisement marketing Project deliverable born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access IPRO / Interprofessional Projects Program Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department